Supporting and stretching bracket for shades and curtains



L. GLADISH. SUPPORTING AND STRETCHING BRACKET FOR SHADES AND CURTAINS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. I8, 1920.

Patented Oct. 4, 1921.

- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LAURA GLADISH, on ST. LOUIS, ivrIssoURr.

surronrme Am: STRETGHYING BRACKET FOR SHADES AND CU TAINS."

To all whom it may concern:

-.1 3e it known that I, LAURA GLADIsH, a citizen of the United States, residingat St.

Louis, in State of Missouri, haveinvented certailrnew and useful Improvements in Supporting and Stretching Brackets for Shades and Curtains, of which the following is a specification containing a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

' My invention relates to an improved arrangement of means for suspending and draping the shade, and lace-drapery upon doors and windows, and it consists in the novel disclosure hereinafter particularly detelescopic drapery and lace-curtaln holdingscribed and distinctly claimed.

The object of my invention is to simplify the construction and arrangement of the drapery and. shade fixtures of doorsand windows, and at the same time provide a very simple and efficient combination of parts that will artistically hold in position the shade, the drapery, and the lace curtains.

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is an elevation of the inside of an apartment door, having my invention applied thereto, parts being broken away for an obvious purpose.

Fig. 2 is an edge elevation of the door, having my improved brackets in place thereon, the upper and lower parts of the door being broken away. 7

Fig.3 is a detail side-elevation of the upper bracket and parts suspended therefrom, at dthe upper end of the door or window, an

Fig. 4 is a view similar to the last, showing a detail side-elevation of the lower bracket that is in cooperation withthe upper bracket.

The numeral 1 designates the ordinary door or window, having the usual glass 2 and ornamental upper parts 3.

At the upper end of said door 1 are secured by means of screws or tacks 4 at a suitable distance apart to receive the shaderoller 5 between them, a pair of my improved combined shade, drapery and lacecurtain brackets 6.

Said upper brackets 6 are composed of a vertical base-plate 7 which is provided with perforations to receive the said. screws or tacks 4 in fastening the bracket to the door or window; a long arm 8 which projects at right-angle from the said base-plate, at

Specification of Letters Patent.

' the upper end of the latter, and at the outer edge of same, and the said arm being provided in its upper edge near its free outer end with a slot 9 for the nonrotatable flat pintleof said shade-roller 5; and a shorter lowerarm 10, which is formed integral with said base-plate and extends at a right'angle therefrom at the lower end thereof, and at the inner edge of same, the

upper edge of the said arm 10 beingprovided with two parallel slots 11, the upper" 'ends of which are open, and the walls of -which slots are inclined, so that the outer walls thereof will overhang the inner Walls thereof, and act as stops, to prevent the accidental jumping upwardly of the common rods 12.

Said rods 12 are made telescopic, so that one section thereof may slide upon or within the other section, and thus increase or diminish the length of said rods, as required for different widths of doors or windows, to which the drapery and lace curtains may be applied.

Said slot 9 of the said long shade-supporting arms 8 is open at its upper end, and the outer wall of said slot is inclined inwardly, Fig. 3, to overhang the non-rotatable flat pintle of the said common spring shade-roller 5, and act as a stop therefor, to prevent the accidental jumping of said pintle upwardly and out of said slot. The numeral 14 designates the lace curtain, and 15 indicates the drapery that is located between the said lace curtain and the common shade 16, which latter is mounted upon the said shade-roller 5 and operates in the usual manner, except as hereinafter noted.

Said lace curtain 14 and the said drapery materials 15 have their upper and lower edges mounted on the said rods 12, and they are stretched thereby, and held in the usual position for ornamental and artistic effect.-

wardly-projecting hook 21 which is. below and. opposite the said hook 20, there being Patented Oct. 4., 1921. Application filed March 18,1920. Serial No. 366,831. f I

an opening 22 for the insertion and withdrawal of said rod 12 of said drapery at a point between the said hooks; and a hook 23, Fig.4, projecting upwardly at a point in rear of said hook 21, and there being an opening or space 24 between said hooks 2'1 and 23, through which the rod 12 at the lower end of the lace curtain 14 may be quickly inserted laterally and withdrawn laterally when desired.

, When the said rods 12 at the lower edges of said lace curtain 14 andsaid-drapery 15 are in use as stretchers for the said mate- 7 rla'ls said .rods are drawn upwardly into contact with semicircular seats in said brackets 17 but when said materials become stretched during use, and before said materials are applied to'said'rods, the latter rest (as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 4-) in semicircular seats formed in the upper edges of the said hooks 21 and 23.

The operation of my invention will be clearly understood from the above description, except as to the fact that the said shade 16 hangs from the outer (or free) side of the said shade-roller 5, so that it will not intical edge and the upper end of which pro- 7 jects along arm having a bearing for the pintle of a shade-roller; and a short arm extending at right-angles from the inner' vertical edge of the said base-plate, at a distance below said long arm, and provided with two parallel inclined open slots which extend downwardly from the upper edge of said short arm.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscrlbing witnesses.

LAURA oLADrsH, Witnesses: i IDA PHILLIPS,

JOHN C. HIGDQN. 

